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    The End of the Sentence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 222min
    It begins with a letter from a prisoner.... As he attempts to rebuild his life in rural Oregon after a tragic accident, Malcolm Mays finds himself corresponding with Dusha Chuchonnyhoof, a mysterious entity who claims to be the owner of Malcolm's house, jailed unjustly for 117 years. The prisoner demands that Malcolm perform a gory, bewildering task for him. As the clock ticks toward Dusha's release, Malcolm must attempt to find out whether he's assisting a murderer or an innocent. The End of the Sentence combines Kalapuya, Welsh, Scottish, and Norse mythology with a dark, imagined history of the hidden corners of the American West. Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard have forged a fairy tale of ghosts and guilt, literary horror blended with the visuals of Jean Cocteau, failed executions, shape-shifting goblins, and magical blacksmithery. In Chuchonnyhoof, they've created a new kind of Beast, longing, centuries later, for Beauty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008389/bk_blak_008389_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Voyages of the White Skull Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 756min
    Imagine a future where the fate of humanity is ruled by the vile and unforgiving government. Executions of the poor become daily occurrences in order to make more room for the wealthy and the children of a new generation. A questionable agenda has been given to a dark, unforeseeable future, and the hope of the people rests in unsure success of a starship named the Horizon. The search for humanity's new home has begun.  Enter the White Skull, a drug-addicted space pirate who has given up on his own life could be the only hope humanity has left. He gets help from an eclectic group of misfits, including an eccentric homosexual colleague, an obsessed ex-girlfriend and a mysterious female assassin bent on revenge and infatuated with diamonds. Will this group of misguided adventurers and cutthroats be able to see past the darkness in their own hearts to find a better future for humanity?  Find out in the first adventure of the White Skull. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karesa McElheny. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134297/bk_acx0_134297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties: The Complete BBC Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 714min
    The Sceptred Isle provided the definitive radio account of the British nation, from 55BC to the end of the 20th century. Now its attention turns towards the incredibly powerful families which have wielded power behind the scenes for the past 1,000 years. The Dynasties relates how the loyalties of this privileged elite, many of whom are older than the monarchy itself, were tested and rewarded; it also uncovers a multitude of murderous plots, bloody battles, adulteries, intrigues and shocking executions. The first volume examines three powerful houses: The Godwines, the north-dwelling Percys and the royalist Despensers. Volume two looks at the Mortimers, the Berkeleys and a triumvirate of warring Irish dysnasties: the Macmurroughs, the Fitzgeralds and the O'Neills. The third volume investigates the Churchills, the Cecils and the Scottish Dalrymples. In the fourth volume the Cavendishes appear, along with the Comptons and the Russells. In the fifth and final volume, the families examined include the Carringtons, the Waldegraves and the Norfolks. There is also a look at the families who today continue the tradition of dynastical power at the highest levels. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Massey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002908/bk_rhuk_002908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Republic of Imagination , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 608min
    From the author of the best-selling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy best seller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating follow-up, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her at a reading, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favourite novels, she invites us to join her as citizens of her Republic of Imagination, a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy, and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mozhan Marno. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002282/bk_rhuk_002282_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: It's a Wonderful Afterlife?, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Neuroscientist David Eagleman is the author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. He tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the different things he has imagined might happen to us after we die. He starts by reading the title story Sum.Next, religion editor for Newsweek magazine Lisa Miller is a journalist as well as author of a book called Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife. She tells Jim Fleming about the common denominators the three Abrahamic religions have about the concept of heaven. After that, literary scholar John Casey is also a philosopher with an interest in heaven, and talked with Steve Paulson about his book After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. He says Christian and Muslim traditions often involve the afterlife, but it's not so important to the Jews.Finally, Carlos Eire won a National Book Award for his memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana. His new book is A Very Brief History of Eternity. He tells Steve Paulson he started to worry about death as a child, growing up in Cuba during an era of public executions. [Broadcast Date: June 29, 2011] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/110629/rt_tbon_110629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: It's a Wonderful Afterlife?, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Neuroscientist David Eagleman is the author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. He tells Anne Strainchamps about some of the different things he has imagined might happen to us after we die. He starts by reading the title story Sum.Next, religion editor for Newsweek magazine Lisa Miller is a journalist as well as author of a book called Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife. She tells Jim Fleming about the common denominators the three Abrahamic religions have about the concept of heaven. After that, literary scholar John Casey is also a philosopher with an interest in heaven, and talked with Steve Paulson about his book After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. He says Christian and Muslim traditions often involve the afterlife, but it's not so important to the Jews.Finally, Carlos Eire won a National Book Award for his memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana. His new book is A Very Brief History of Eternity. He tells Steve Paulson he started to worry about death as a child, growing up in Cuba during an era of public executions. [Broadcast Date: May 26, 2010] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100526/rt_tbon_100526_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rule of Law , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 851min
    What did the president know? And when did she know it? For the members of SEAL Team Six, it was a rare mission ordered by the president, monitored in real time from the Situation Room. Houthi rebels in Yemen had captured an American journalist and a member of the Saudi royal family. Their executions were scheduled for Easter Sunday. The SEAL team were to break them out. But when the mission results in spectacular failure, the finger-pointing goes all the way to the top. Did the president play political games with the lives of US service members? Paige Chambers, a determined young lawyer, has a very personal reason for wanting to know the answer. The case she files will polarize the nation and test the resiliency of the Constitution. The stakes are huge, the alliances shaky, and she will be left to wonder if the saying on the Supreme Court building still holds true. Equal justice under law It makes a nice motto. But will it work when the defendant is also one of the most powerful people on the planet? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010306/bk_blak_010306_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min
    Could you retain your faith even if it meant losing your life? Your family's lives? To many Christians in the Middle East today, a "momentary, light affliction" means enduring only torture instead of martyrdom. The depth of oppression Jesus' followers suffer is unimaginable to most Western Christians. Yet it is an everyday reality for those who choose faith over survival in Syria, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, and other countries hostile to the Gospel of Christ. In Killing Christians Tom Doyle takes listeners to the secret meetings, the torture rooms, the grim prisons, and even the executions that are the "calling" of countless Muslims turned Christians. All survivors long to share with brothers and sisters "on the outside" what Christ has taught them. Killing Christians is their message to listeners who still enjoy freedom to practice their faith. None would wish their pain and suffering on those who do not have to brave such misery, but the richness gained through their remarkable trials are delivered--often in their own words--through this audiobook. The stories are breathtaking, the lessons soul stirring and renewing. Killing Christians presents the dead-serious work of expanding and maintaining the faith. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tnwd/000427/bk_tnwd_000427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 982min
    New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Drawing on never-before-published original source detail, the epic story of two of the most consequential, and largely forgotten, moments in Supreme Court history. For two hundred years, the constitutionality of capital punishment had been axiomatic. But in 1962, Justice Arthur Goldberg and his clerk Alan Dershowitz dared to suggest otherwise, launching an underfunded band of civil rights attorneys on a quixotic crusade. In 1972, in a most unlikely victory, the Supreme Court struck down Georgia’s death penalty law in Furman v. Georgia. Though the decision had sharply divided the justices, nearly everyone, including the justices themselves, believed Furman would mean the end of executions in America. Instead, states responded with a swift and decisive showing of support for capital punishment. As anxiety about crime rose and public approval of the Supreme Court declined, the stage was set in 1976 for Gregg v. Georgia, in which the Court dramatically reversed direction. A Wild Justice is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the Court, the justices, and the political complexities of one of the most racially charged and morally vexing issues of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jones Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014070/bk_adbl_014070_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min
    During the spring of 1536 in Tudor England, events conspire to bring down Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England. The coup against the Queen results in the brutal executions of six innocent people - Anne Boleyn herself, her brother, and four courtiers - and the rise of a new Queen. Drawing on 16th-century letters, eye witness accounts, and chronicles, Claire Ridgway leads the listener through the sequence of chilling events one day at a time, telling the true story of Anne Boleyn's fall. The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown is presented in a diary format, allowing listeners to dip in, look up a particular date, or listen from start to finish. Special features include mini biographies of those involved, a timeline of events, and full referencing. Why was Anne Boleyn executed? Who was responsible for Anne Boleyn's fall? Was Anne Boleyn's execution a foregone conclusion, and was she framed? Claire Ridgway, creator of The Anne Boleyn Files website and best-selling author of The Anne Boleyn Collection, George Boleyn, and On This Day in Tudor History continues her mission to share the real truth about Anne Boleyn. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claire Ridgway. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020473/bk_acx0_020473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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